Amazon might pay $1 billion for this wild sci-fi series

The "studio" obviously has high hopes for story

Amazon, in a bid to conquer every market in every country on Earth, is reportedly nearing a deal to adapt the wildly popular Three Body Problem book series into a TV show. This is in addition to their huge, already-announced Lord of the Rings reboot.

There’s a race on at the moment among the major networks (“major network” now being a somewhat fluid term that includes the likes of streaming platform Hulu and what was once the home-goods shopping website Amazon) to find the next Game of Thrones. And Amazon seems to be betting big money that The Three-Body Problem is it. The two series share one similarity: While the Remembrance of Earth’s Past books are hugely popular, everyone generally just calls the whole thing by the first book’s name still.

Word has it Amazon is looking to adapt all three books into three seasons of TV. The story follows a Chinese astrophysicist who manages to contact an alien race and, infuriated by the people around her, invites them to come destroy the earth. A power move if ever there was one.

YooZoo Pictures, a Chinese production company, is said to hold the rights to all three Remembrance books, but if Amazon’s bid for the rights is anywhere near the reported sum (one billiondollars—nearly four Avengers: Infinity Wars), it seems a foregone conclusion this will be a done deal in the not-too-distant future.